Anxiety

Panic attacks, Sore Muscles, Tightening of the Chest and Lump in the Throat

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Lately I have found it hard to get comfortable sitting down and also when I lay down to go to sleep. I been getting a sore left shoulder with a burning feeling in the joint, then I overthink things and my heart starts racing and it feels like my ches... View more

Lately I have found it hard to get comfortable sitting down and also when I lay down to go to sleep. I been getting a sore left shoulder with a burning feeling in the joint, then I overthink things and my heart starts racing and it feels like my chest is tightening at night time. During the day I sometimes get a lump in my throat and feel sick in the stomach. I have only been experiencing this since New Years day when I had my first Panic attack thinking I needed to go to hospital. I have since gone to the Doctor and they just think my Blood Pressure was high because of the recent stress I have had. These panic attacks leave be anxious thinking I have a serious health issue except the doctors don't think I do and I am only young. I believe my triggers are when my shoulder gets sore and when I feel sick in the stomach is their any quick tips to minimise muscle tension and Nausea? I am currently exercising and started clean eating but is there anything else that will help as I hate this horrible feeling I have been experiencing. Alfie

Blue still...

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Ive been an underground driller FIFO for about five years. Two and a half years ago my world was turned upside down by a deceitful ex wife who left me for her boss, left a huge amount of debt for me to pay alone, and worst of all attempted to estrang... View more

Ive been an underground driller FIFO for about five years. Two and a half years ago my world was turned upside down by a deceitful ex wife who left me for her boss, left a huge amount of debt for me to pay alone, and worst of all attempted to estrange me from my children if I didn't pay what she wanted for child support. It was a dark time in my life that had me completely lost and broken. I would say looking back the weight and shock of it all sent me into a depression which I struggled with alone. But I tackled it all and triumphed rectifying most of the issues that stemmed from that situation and have a working relationship with the children's mother which sees me having them full-time on my breaks from work and doing well in my job and getting financially right. Things are on track and I'm doing better than I was. But, I am having some really sad thoughts and feelings of inadequacy. I was hit pretty hard by what happened. During that time I pushed friends and family away because I was so embarrassed by it all and started drinking heavily and still sort of do. I can't seem to allow myself to develop the motivation and energy to invest in a relationship or make and maintain friendships despite the fierce loneliness I feel every waking moment which is nearly always because I can't get to sleep without assistance and if I do manage to sleep it's not for long. I am far from home my support network is small and overseas for the most part. I can't help feeling that I should be better than I am. I find myself comparing myself to everyone in my life and that I meet. I don't know what is wrong, I know I have something. I have some sort of depression or anxiety thing but I've not really reached out for help. Things are good looking in from the outside I guess. I have straightened my life out and am in a good position, I should be happy but i am just so lonely and the thought of letting people close to me scares me. I'm afraid I'll fall short or fail them. I feel like these feelings a holding me back and don't know how to shake it. Some help would be nice, but I get hardly any time at all to get it sorted. It's been a struggle since it happened but the struggle inside still feels just as intense now as it did then. Any ideas for me?

Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.

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Heya, After scrolling through the many online forums for the past week now of employees of Maccas expressing their dislike of working there I would like to ask for advice. I started my first job two weeks ago. I'm almost 19, I finished school late la... View more

Heya, After scrolling through the many online forums for the past week now of employees of Maccas expressing their dislike of working there I would like to ask for advice. I started my first job two weeks ago. I'm almost 19, I finished school late last year and after 6 months of searching I finally got accepted to work for McDonalds. I have struggled with Anxiety and Depression for years, so this was a massive achievement for me. First few shifts were okay, the staff are mostly lovely. Regardless after my third shift I came home in tears as I knew this place wasn't for me, for despite the overall kindness and training, I really disliked the way some customers treated me and the copious amount of work I was given compared to my fellow trainee. After being told by numerous people that understandably "I'll get used to it" and the fact that I'm too afraid to even talk to the head managers to resign, I decided to push on through to my second week. This week I was on front counter. During my last shift, the head manager who I had originally found to be more approachable than the other, grew incredibly rude as the 3 hour shift progressed. At one stage I was 'assembling' an order, and said manager bluntly said "move' and immediately bumped me out of the way to assemble the order herself, causing me to almost spill fries onto the ground. Being sensitive this made me even more anxious and weary, as customers were literally right behind the counter and witnessed it. A little later a wave of customers had ended, so instead of standing around doing nothing, I decided to do a spot clean and quickly make the fries station look more presentable. All of a sudden I hear the manager barking, "Are you just going to pretend that there are no customers waiting or go and serve them!". I quickly stop what I'm doing and rush to serve the customers. After that, my already nervous heart could not stop beating fast, I felt even more on edge and I couldn't settle down. Before my shift today I had a panic episode that didn't leave until about an hour later due to my work shift that was getting closer. I ended up getting my dad to tell them I couldn't make it. I couldn't do it myself as I was a hyperventilating mess. After a rough 5 years of pushing through school that I hated, I'm so scared of my mental health and sleep declining again. But after having such a hard time getting a job in the first place, I'm worried I won't be able to get another... What should I do? Money > Health?

Anxiety, Depression and Medication

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Hi there, I’m new here and this is my first post. I am terribly scared as I’m sure the medication I am on is not helping and actually having the opposite effect. Since moving from NZ to Australia 5 years ago this is when anxiety took hold of my life.... View more

Hi there, I’m new here and this is my first post. I am terribly scared as I’m sure the medication I am on is not helping and actually having the opposite effect. Since moving from NZ to Australia 5 years ago this is when anxiety took hold of my life. I had never experienced it before and didn’t know what was happening. I have tried many different medications to help with the anxiety & depression and they only seem to work for short periods of time then stop working and I’m back to square one again. It is the most awful and devastating feeling in the world, thinking this is it, this is how the rest of my life is going to be. No one seems to have the answers and psychological help has not really worked. Unfortunately now I am addicted to Paxam which I am trying to get off. I don’t think medication is the answer but am now stuck on it due to the withdrawals being so horrific. Every day is a struggle and I want to be better so I can be strong for my family - feeling devastated

Anxiety, Depression and Heart Palipiations

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Hi Guys, I feel I owe it to you all to post about my problems as I have often cross referenced what I suffer on these forums. I have serious forms of Anxiety (where i fear death at every turn), depression and heart palpitations. I am convinced I am g... View more

Hi Guys, I feel I owe it to you all to post about my problems as I have often cross referenced what I suffer on these forums. I have serious forms of Anxiety (where i fear death at every turn), depression and heart palpitations. I am convinced I am going to drop dead any day now for any reason my brain can come up with. This in turn makes me very depressed and cause heart palpitations all day. Anxiety: I have suffered since the 31/10/2004. I could not be left alone for over 12 months from fear of dying. I would have over 200 attacks a day. I thought my heart was going to stop, I would have a stroke, I had cancer etc... The list goes on and on. Depression: I am so hard on myself. I hate the way I look, I hate my job and how people see me for it, I never go anywhere or do anything. My life is just stuck on groundhog day. This has lead to financial trouble. Family troubles and its just no way to live. Heart Palpitations: I have around 100 of these a day. Skipped beats mostly. I also get painful squeezing ones. They are very scary. I went to the hospital in 2013 (emergency) and they said I was fine... I was meant to have follow up test but I was too scared. I guess that's the trap of the illness... In the last 2 weeks the palpitations got really bad. I ended up in hospital again. ECG, chest X-Ray and bloods were taken. I was beside myself with fear. They all came back fine. I even have a resting pulse of 59bpm and blood pressure 127/76. Of course to me my heart has always beat too fast and I thought I had high blood pressure. I was told to have the 24hr monitor test and I went through with it. Scariest 24 hours of my life. I just received the results today and everything has come back normal... The purpose of writing this is to maybe help people who suffer things like I do. Hopefully it will give someone the strength to have the tests done or seek help to start getting better. It is possible. I know that now. I am committed to do this for myself and my loved ones. To the many peoples posts I read over they years thank-you. It helped me. The greatest journey starts with a single step.

Unsure

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Hi All, I am not sure where to begin. I have always been a "stresshead" (not my term) and a worrywart, but of late it seems to have escalated. I am now experiencing panic attacks, which always come out of the blue (to me anyway) and are frightening a... View more

Hi All, I am not sure where to begin. I have always been a "stresshead" (not my term) and a worrywart, but of late it seems to have escalated. I am now experiencing panic attacks, which always come out of the blue (to me anyway) and are frightening as well as knots in my stomach, having little to no appetite, difficulty sleeping most nights, crying at the drop of a hat and just not myself. I am uncertain as to what is the cause or trigger but before I got speak to a doctor I thought I would try and find some support from others in the same or similar position or not at a all but are happy to listen. About me: 28, 3 children aged 8, 4 and 8 months. I work as a disability support worker with shift work hours however I'm currently only working 15-20 hours a week as I've come off maternity leave recently. I am partnered. My partner works shift work hours in management elsewhere. According to my father I have always been the queen of balance -working, study, raising children, taking them to their extra curricular activities and school, home duties shared with my partner etc and I am still managing to do it now however I just feel like I'm going through the motions. Am I just being silly? I feel like I'm not making sense..

Leaving stressful job and too much change at once - feeling broken

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For the last couple of years I worked 12 hour days and it wasn’t unusual for me to bring work home to complete on weekends. My family warned me that this wasn’t sustainable. Then three weeks ago after not sleeping due to stress, tension and anxiety, ... View more

For the last couple of years I worked 12 hour days and it wasn’t unusual for me to bring work home to complete on weekends. My family warned me that this wasn’t sustainable. Then three weeks ago after not sleeping due to stress, tension and anxiety, I resigned from my management job. Stupidly, I thought once I left my job I would feel better again quickly. Not having a job has made me feel empty and even though I want to look for work as soon as possible, I feel scared of the process and starting a new job. Two weeks ago I went to see my Doctor and just broke down in tears – it was very embarrassing. She thought it may be due to the lack of sleep and prescribed sleeping tablets to take for two weeks to try and restore my sleeping pattern. I had to wait while the Pharmacy ordered them. In the meantime I started to sleep again, so I didn’t end up taking them. Then one week ago my eldest son moved out with his girlfriend which broke my heart and the house feels so empty … I know I should be happy about that. Unfortunately I’m not sleeping again. I have decided to start taking the sleeping tablets for a week and see if that makes a difference. I will go and see my Doctor next week once she returns from holidays. I have also made an appointment with a Psychologist. I have done extensive reading about how to return from this horrible experience, but I think the constant reading of the endless information on the internet probably isn’t overly helpful. I have been trying to reconnect spiritually, learn mindfulness/meditation, walking heaps, positive talk, etc. and forcing myself to eat even though I have no appetite. I'm taking natural remedies for mild anxiety. I found the lead up to Christmas to be incredibly difficult – I just wanted it to go away. At the moment I feel broken and I just want to feel normal again. Has anyone else felt like this before? Any advice would be welcomed.

help

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Pleaase someone talk to me please... the depression is at me again, please. In messager, please. Someone. Jsut for a few minutes, please. I'm alone... I just need a voice. Somone. Ihave no credit on my phone, no friends here, only been here 8 months.... View more

Pleaase someone talk to me please... the depression is at me again, please. In messager, please. Someone. Jsut for a few minutes, please. I'm alone... I just need a voice. Somone. Ihave no credit on my phone, no friends here, only been here 8 months. Know no one. I'm on medication and seeinga councilor, but I just needa voice for a few minutes. Please. I just need to hear someones voice.

Anyone else want to kick me

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Been a while since i have posted and have been in a relatively good space. Until a month ago. My divorce is done ..... that didnt trouble me. Then i find out my visa application stands no chance and now in 8 months i have to leave back to england. I ... View more

Been a while since i have posted and have been in a relatively good space. Until a month ago. My divorce is done ..... that didnt trouble me. Then i find out my visa application stands no chance and now in 8 months i have to leave back to england. I have 2 young children one of whom is a Australian citizen but it seems that even then i have no rights unless i can come up with 100.grand. My world has been shatered and my anxiety is kicking into over drive. I contribute, i work, but still not enough. What do i have to do i scream. I can not cope with the pressure and my lvs are rising. For people in here who know my story my lvs dont know where to stop. That spiral feeling ive tried so hard to fight off in my life is building and my heart is breaking. Please no more kicks in the teeth i carnt take it.

Worrying about worrying - the joys of anxiety!

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Hi everyone, I’m new here! I have been dealing with horrible anxiety since late last year when my partner abruptly up and left me. We have since reconciled, but I can’t help worry almost daily that this will happen again. I am scared to not worry in ... View more

Hi everyone, I’m new here! I have been dealing with horrible anxiety since late last year when my partner abruptly up and left me. We have since reconciled, but I can’t help worry almost daily that this will happen again. I am scared to not worry in case it happens again, it’s as though I think this will lessen the pain if it does happen (silly, I know). I worry about worrying, and worry that it will upset him and he will leave again. I have suffered bouts of anxiety previously in my life, but nothing to this degree. We have a good relationship, the reason he left was heartbreaking and we were both grieving. I just feel like my anxiety will slowly push him away. I look for signs in every message, every verbal conversation we have, that he might leave me again or that his feelings are changing. My GP referred me to a psychologist, who I have seen a few times now. She is great, but we more so talk about ways to work through my anxiety and she gives me homework to do. She has suggested meditation which I can only seem to do at night before I sleep as during the day it makes me feel more anxious. She has asked that I keep a ‘Worry Journal’, which I am yet to start, possibly because writing down every time I worry will make me feel crazy, as I worry a lot. My anxiety started from the sudden relationship change, but has since stemmed further into worrying about certain family members falling ill. One of the did and I guess that just proved worrying doesn’t prevent anything. I wish I could just switch my brain off at times as it makes me physically sick. I have lost almost 30kg this year and feel weak at times. It’s hard to swallow any solid food, it was hard to even drink water at first. I guess the point of this post is to reach out to others who are suffering from a similar issue. I enjoy seeing my psychologist, although sometimes I come out feeling worse. Sometimes I just want to talk to another human who suffers from anxiety and understands. I find talking incredibly therapeutic! I hate how this is consuming me lately and just want to feel better. I have been prescribed medication but don’t know if I want to take that route. I am afraid of side effects, and as much as I don’t want to feel the way I do I worry that it might numb it all too much and I will never be able to recover and just become dependent on the medication. This post is a lot longer than I intended, sorry! Thanks for reading - winterily

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